Re: BANANAFISH digest 64
Elizabeth J Respess (ejrespess@juno.com)
Sat, 09 Aug 1997 19:38:34 -0400 (EDT)
>Oh you kids today...always thinking that all anybody wants is sex. I
>already AM a feminist (and a Camille Paglia feminist at that) and >have
been one for the past twelve years (which was when I started >taking
women's studies courses) or my whole life, however you >choose to look at
it. So a fellow feminist advertises the only criteria she needs to
consider marrying a man and i bite at the bait. Have we all lost our
sense of humor? We've already taken it backchannel anyway.
who said anything about sex? besides, there is is nothing anti-feminist
about trying to get a date with one - quite the opposite, actually. to
know someone's views and THEN be interested instead of the opposite is
quite cool. if it seemed i thought otherwise, i'm sorry - that's not
what i meant at all.
>I thought this old war-horse of an argument was finally dead. Most
>feminists worth their salt agree that pornography doesn't cause >rape or
sexual harassment; it causes masturbation, be it >heterosexual,
homosexual, male or female pornography.
have you ever read any of andrea dworkin's work? she wrote an essay
called 'letter from a war zone' which is from a collection of her essays
called 'letters from a war zone'. anyway, this essay is pretty
interesting. it's about the connections between pornography and rape. i
thought it was quite powerful, but i'd like to get other (probably
dissenting opinions). it's always good to get a variety of perceptions.